The World Bank pioneered global HIV and AIDS financing early in the emergency and remains committed to achieving Millennium Development Goal 6, to halt by 2015 and begin to reverse the spread of HIV and AIDS, through prevention, care, treatment, and mitigation services for those affected by HIV and AIDS.
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After the first case of HIV was detected
in India in 1986, Government of India initiated AIDS control
activities as early as 1987and evolved the National AIDS
Control... Show More + Programme (NACP). NACP Phase I was launched in 1992,
followed by Phase II in 1999 and Phase III in 2006. Due to
extensive coverage and intense efforts, prevalence of HIV
infection among adults has decreased from 0.41% in 2000 to
0.31% in 2009, which is remarkable. Presently, NACP IV is
being launched with the vision that, by 2020, the number of
HIV infected people in India, will gradually come to low
levels and HIV could become a chronic manageable illness in
India. According to the draft strategy paper for NACP IV,
the program plans to bring about significant reduction in
new HIV infections.The proposed World Bank support to NACO
through National AIDS Control Support Project (NACSP) is the
fourth phase (2012-17). Efforts towards Infection Control
and Waste Management have already been introduced under NACP
Phase III, which has a component of Infection Control and
Waste Management (IC-WM). A wide range of activities have
been undertaken during NACP III in this direction. To name a
few: development of guidelines on ICWM, training manuals,
training of various categories of medical and other
technical professionals, special focus and guidelines on
needles disposal and management for IDU interventions,
ensuring adequate supplies for Personal Protective Equipment
and inclusion of IC activities through TI monitoring reports Show Less -